Hollien v. State

MORROW, Judge.

The prosecution is under Article 640A, Penal Code, for the desertion of wife and child in destitute and necessitous circumstances.

The wife, under Article 640C, is made a competent witness against her husband, and complaint sworn to by her was not void.

The parties were married about the first of the year, 1918, and separated in August of that year. The prosecution began about the first of April, 1919. After the marriage they lived together for several months, when the wife received a telegram advising her that her mother was sick. She and her husband went to her mother’s home in…